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Mormon Stories Podcast

Announcing: The Open Arms Collective

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.5 β€’ 5.7K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 9 March 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Join Jenn as she introduces a new addition to Open Stories Foundation. The Open Arms Collective is a group of women and gender non-binary individuals meeting monthly along the Wasatch Front, with open arms, to embrace our family and friends wherever they are on their faith journey!

We hold monthly events to empower, learn, create and build community together.

Please click here to register for upcoming events.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, I'm Jen. I'm the new director of operations with the Open Stories Foundation

0:08.0

and Happy International Women's Day. I'm excited to announce a new part of Open Stories

0:14.7

Foundation. I want to introduce you to Open Arms Collective. The Open Arms Collective

0:21.9

was selfishly created over the last year as I left the LDS religion. I needed to create

0:31.1

a safe place where my four daughters and I could go together with some of them being believing,

0:39.5

some questioning and some moving forward on their faith journey. This group of women

0:46.5

and non-binary individuals along the Wasatch Front will meet monthly to empower, learn,

0:55.1

create, have fun and build community together. It's like the society you may have been a

1:02.4

part of before but a million times better. I'm super excited about it. Let me kind of show

1:09.3

you the website. If you go to Mormonstories.org slash events, the first thing that pops up

1:17.5

will be this link to the Open Arms Collective. If you scroll down, you'll see it's a collective

1:25.8

of women and non-binary individuals embracing our family and friends with open arms through

1:32.1

their faith journey. It's a soft place to land. Scroll down a little more. You can see

1:38.0

the monthly events that are coming up. This is along the Wasatch Front. Our first event

1:45.4

is not this Sunday but next Sunday. It's just a gathering together to share our stories,

1:53.3

get to know one another and just kind of start this new group, new collective with each

1:59.5

other. So it's kind of dear to my heart. I'm excited to get to know everyone and kind

2:06.2

of build this community with one another that we can all come together. So that is March

2:15.6

20th. We're just gathering together. We're going to have some dessert. We're going to

2:20.0

talk. We're just going to be together. And then in April, we have Leah Young coming in

2:25.5

and I'm super excited about this. Whenever we do retreats or workshops, we always have

2:33.7

and always wants parenting class, post orthodoxy, communication and parenting class. And so I

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